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When House Speaker Mike Johnson fielded questions about the shutdown on C-SPAN Thursday, a self-described GOP mother and military wife said the health of her two children was in jeopardy and urged him to call the House back into session to pass a bill to pay service members. “I have two medically fragile children,” said the caller, who identified herself as Samantha from Northern Virginia. “I have a husband who actively serves this country. He suffers from PTSD from his two tours in Afghanistan. If we see a lapse in pay come the 15th (of October), my children do not get…

A Social Security Administration office in Washington, D.C., is seen on March 26. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Employees at Social Security field offices say the government shutdown has left them unable to carry out an important service for some recipients. While the agency continues to disburse retirement and disability benefits, workers say they are unable to provide benefit verification letters to people calling in to request them. These official letters act as a sort of income verification and are therefore key to obtaining aid like housing assistance, fuel assistance and…

How Fairfield Chair keeps American-made furniture alive – CBS News Watch CBS News Skyler Henry travels to North Carolina to explore how Fairfield Chair balances its heritage of craftsmanship with new technology to keep sofas and chairs made in the USA. Source link

Politics / October 10, 2025 At the end of the season, he cuts wages of 400,000 workers by a third. Ad Policy Jaime Solorio is an immigrant H-2A worker recruited in Mexico. He is digging post holes for wire supports for planting apple trees, in a field owned by Stemilt Growers in Royal City, Washington.(David Bacon) On October 2, Trump finally dropped the hammer on farmworkers. At the end of the season, when most workers who might protest are no longer in the fields, he cut the wages of 400,000 people by as much as a third.  Trump’s order, a…

Maine Gov. Janet Mills is expected to launch a campaign for Senate on Tuesday, two Democratic sources familiar with her plans confirmed to CBS News.   A Democrat, Mills is vying to unseat longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of the most closely watched contests of next year’s midterm elections.Mills’ planned campaign launch was first reported by Axios.Mills, who is term-limited, has served as governor of Maine since 2019, after working as the state’s attorney general. She drew national attention earlier this year when she verbally argued with President Trump at a White House event after he pressed Maine to…

Federal workers who are either furloughed or required to keep working without pay during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown express concern about the impact on their finances, their colleagues and the American public.Roughly 750,000 of the more than 2 million federal workers are furloughed during the government closure, which began on Oct. 1, when Congress failed to agree on a spending bill, leading to the first lapse in funding in nearly seven years.Here is what three federal workers — who shared their personal views with CBS News and were not speaking on behalf of their respective agencies — describe as their biggest concerns…

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who has been banned from running for office, campaigns for presidential candidate Edmundo González, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Ariana Cubillos/AP hide caption toggle caption Ariana Cubillos/AP Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. In an announcement on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Machado’s tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela is “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.” Machado has been one of the staunchest critics of the powerful United Socialist Party of Venezuela…

Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger faced off for the first and only time on the debate stage Thursday night in Virginia’s high-stakes gubernatorial race. It was a fiery affair in which Earle-Sears, who is trailing in the race, went on the offensive from the very beginning, repeatedly interrupting Spanberger and asking her several direct questions.Spanberger, who largely avoided addressing her Republican opponent directly, sought to cast a bipartisan tone at times. Over the course of the hourlong affair, the candidates sparred over violent rhetoric, the federal shutdown and transgender children. The economy was largely an afterthought. This combo image…

10/9: CBS Evening News Plus – CBS News Watch CBS News Breaking down indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James; Reporter’s Notebook: Will China return to buying American soybeans? Source link

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., leave a news conference after a Senate vote on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 30. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images As the government shutdown stretches into its ninth day, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is urging House Republicans to return to Washington and negotiate, warning that millions of Americans could soon see their health care premiums double if Congress fails to act. “There certainly is [a way out], and it’s an obvious way out,” Durbin told Morning Edition. “Have both…